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Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning

Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Frank Baker media educator fbaker1346@aol.com Media Literacy Clearinghouse http://www.frankwbaker.com

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Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning

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  1. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Frank Baker media educator fbaker1346@aol.com Media Literacy Clearinghouse http://www.frankwbaker.com

  2. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning With the advent and popularity of YouTube, Current TV, and similar venues, young people have become media producers. DIY (do it yourself)

  3. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Middle Ground: October 2006 Focus On Film:Learning It Through Through The Movies Who says movies aren't valuable instructional tools? When students are engaged with the content through a medium they love, they learn better and retain more.

  4. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning What is your favorite scene from a film and why?

  5. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Toto pulls back the curtain: Wizard of Oz

  6. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning "Of all art forms, film is the one that gives the greatest illusion of authenticity...of truth...A motion picture takes a viewer inside where real people are supposedly doing real things...We assume there is a certain verisimilitude, a certain authenticity, but there is always some degree of distortion." Annette Insdorf, film historian (author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust) quoted in the documentary "Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust"

  7. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning "Movies are a door to knowledge--about society, about prejudice, about history, about art --and teachers are eager for someone to help them make the link between education and film."Margaret Bodde, The Story of Movies/The Film Foundation

  8. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning "nonprint texts are an essential part of students' reading experience. . . . “ The National Council for Teachers of English/International Reading Assn. Standards for the English Language Arts

  9. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning National Standards for the English Language Artssponsored by NCTE & IRA6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print texts. Source:http://www.ncte.org/standards/standards.shtml

  10. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning • Analyze, evaluate, and construct meaning from visual images; reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of the work of others • Identify the basic principles of composition; analyze, evaluate, and construct meaning from visual images Source: recommendations of ArtsEdge (the National Arts and Education Network, a program of the Kennedy Center)

  11. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Media literacy advocates that we teach not only analysis of media, but also production of media

  12. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning George LucasDirector

  13. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning So, what do we want students tolearn from film?…or, in other words, why use film in the middle grades classroom?

  14. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning “If video is how we are communicating and persuading in this new century, why aren't more students writing screenplays as part of their schoolwork?” Heidi Hayes JacobEd Consultant

  15. Challenging Students: Film and Media Literacy For 21st Century Learning Thelanguages of film:Cameras: lens position movementLightsSound (includes music)EditingSet Design

  16. Cameras

  17. Lighting Scene Analysis

  18. Music Scene Analysis

  19. Editing(post production) Use of a dissolve indicates “passage of time”

  20. Set Design

  21. Techniques In what ways does the director use techniques which make us, the viewer, believe what we see is actual Civil Rights footage? 1978 Docudrama

  22. Techniques

  23. Teaching Film • Role of the scriptwriter • Writing scripts (website) • Storyboarding (Because of Winn Dixie) • Condensing and adapting • Historical contexts • Learning how to use the camera • Creating trailer and marketing poster

  24. New Resources • Lights Camera Education: united streaming • Story Of Movies: Film Foundation • Film School: Independent Film Channel • British Film Institute (website) • (Australian) Screen Education (magazine) • Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts • The Director in The Classroom (book)

  25. Great resource Australia’s SCREEN EDUCATION http://www.metromagazine.com.au/metro/frm.htm?highlight=1

  26. Michael Wiese Productions Cameras in Narnia How the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Came to Life Michael Wiese Productions

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